Florida Villa to Rent

Our new luxury townhome with 5 bedrooms & 4 bathrooms (2x Masters with en-suites) will sleep 10 people in superb comfort. There is a well-equipped kitchen located adjacent to the dining area, with seating for 10. Flat screen TVs in every room, a multi-region DVD player and an Xbox are provided for your home entertainment. Free WiFi is also available. The property has its own private heated pool and patio area with a covered Lanai.

Located in one of Florida’s premier resorts, Paradise Palms is a gated community offering all the amenities you’d expect in a 5-star facility, including a pool, game room, fitness room and movie theatre. The grounds are beautifully landscaped and there is a poolside Tiki Bar and shop. The resort also offers a shuttle service to many of Orlando’s attractions at an additional fee.

Paradise Palms resort is just minutes away from Orlando’s main attractions. Walt Disney World is just a 10 minute drive and Universal Studios, Seaworld, Wet ‘n Wild, Legoland and other attractions are easily accessible. Highway 192 is just a couple of minutes away and here you will find an amazing range of grocery stores, other retailers, restaurants and bars.

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Selected Articles

Orlando Golf - Alaqua Country Club

Every year vast numbers of visitors arrive in Florida looking for the Walt Disney experience but while here a lot of them want to take part in the Florida golfing scene. This is the third in a series of articles looking at various aspects of the Florida golfing scene, with this feature looking at the Alaqua Country Club.

The Alaqua Country Club can be found 14 miles north of central Orlando. It was one of Gary Player’s early course designs in a career that numbers around 300 courses in total (as well as designing golf courses Gary also found time to win nine majors!).

Unveiled in 1988 the Alaqua Country Club golf course is the focus of an exclusive, luxury, gated community and has been designed to reflect its surroundings, which include Wekiva Preserve State Park as well as the Little Wekiva River. As a result the course is notable for the narrow fairways stretching between corridors of tall trees as well as the ubiquity of water with nearly every hole including a water element in one way or another. The landscape, as well as providing a perfect backdrop for golf, is an ideal environment for wildlife and it is not uncommon for a round of golf to include the occasional sight of an alligator or deer.

The generally accepted approach to playing the narrow fairways and hazardous water features is careful club selection alongside thought through approach play, although by all accounts the course can be played at speed, with a round often taking less than four hours to complete.

The stand out hole on the course is the beautiful 177-yard par-3, hole No. 13. From daunting tee positions to the green protected on all sides by water with a bunker in front to snare anyone falling short, this hole is a challenge for any golfer. Hole 13 is the start of the best run of holes on the course, challenging and picturesque in equal measure.

In short, the Alaqua Country Club golf course provides a very decent round of golf, in beautiful surroundings, yet is only a short hop from central Orlando, offering a relaxing respite from theme park mania.

Florida Villas – Fun Spot USA

The third article in a series looking at some alternative attractions in Central Florida, in the Kissimmee area.

There are two Fun Spot USA amusement parks in the Central Florida area, one close to Orlando and the other in Kissimmee. Fun Spot USA is a family focused amusement park boasting all the usual attractions ranging from some for the thrill seeker to some which are more targeted at the younger members of the family.

A must for any adrenaline junkie is the 300 foot tall SkyCoaster (the tallest in the world) which merges the dual thrills of Sky diving and hang gliding to produce an experience guaranteed to get your pulse racing.

A few more rides for the dedicated thrill seeker include Screaming Eagles and the Power Trip Coaster both of which put control into your hands so that you decide the speed and the height, depending on how brave you are feeling!

If being in control is your thing then go-karting is for you. There are four specialized go-kart circuits at Fun Spot USA the most extreme of which is the Vortex which reaches a towering 4 stories high in places and also boasts a steeper banking track than Daytona.

All of the above are not for the faint-hearted and height restrictions and age limits will rule out most of these for younger children. Fortunately Fun Spot USA has its own child friendly entertainment zone, Kid Spot. This area is aimed at the 2-6 age group and features a series of much gentler rides. There is also an indoor arcade stocked with a large number of games that all age groups can enjoy.

Unlike the major theme parks in the area, entrance and parking are free, with the option of paying per ride or getting an all-day ticket.

Florida Wildlife - Where to Go

Most visitors coming to Florida are attracted by Walt Disney World and the other major theme parks, or are here to enjoy the climate or possibly the golf. Florida has seen massive development over the past few decades with thousands of holiday homes being built, along with shopping malls and restaurants, to support these visitors. However, Florida is a large state and there remains plenty of room for one of Florida’s other main attractions, its wildlife. Although evidence of the state’s wildlife can be found all around us, often in an urban setting, there are a number of dedicated reserves and sanctuaries where wildlife can be seen in its natural state. In this article we cover a few of those ‘best for wildlife’ locations.

Manatee Springs

Under three hours northwest of Orlando, the constant 70 degree temperature of the water in the rivers headspring, where around 100 million gallons of water bubble up every day, acts as a magnet for West Indian Manatees, which head up river to the source of the river from the cooler Gulf of Mexico. At times the beautiful turquoise water is almost swamped by large numbers of manatees and scuba divers travel from all over the world to swim in the waters alongside the creatures and the other wildlife to be found there.

Everglades National Park

An easy drive south of Miami and you enter another world far removed from the city, in the shape of the 2,500 square miles of everglades teeming with alligators, snakes and insects. The Anhinga Trail is a mile long boardwalk through part of the everglades giving a close up view of some of the local inhabitants, including birdlife.

Merritt Island

This nature preserve’s location near Kennedy Space Center has been a blessing as the space program’s security concerns has prevented anything other than space related development, leaving plenty of room for manatees, sea turtles and other wildlife. The refuge spreads over 220 square miles and an easy way to get a feel for the wildlife it contains is to take the Black Point Wildlife Drive, a seven mile long meander bringing you close to a wide variety of wildlife.

Gatorland

We covered Gatorland in another article, but it is a great opportunity to see these creatures close up, albeit in a controlled environment.

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